500 days in office: Group
gives Fashola pass mark
By RAZAQ BAMIDELE
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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Fashola
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A Lagos based non-governmental organization, The Nucleus
Group (TNG) has critically scrutinized the activities of Governor
Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) of Lagos State in the last 500
days in office and said, “His Excellency has performed
excellently.”
Speaking at an interactive session with journalists yesterday,
the TNG Patron, Mr Bosun Jeje, said “sentiment apart,
governor Fashola has done Lagosians proud,” adding that,
even members of other political parties could not help giving
kudos to this young achievers of a man whose performance has
dazed even the most die hard critics and incurable pessimists
that had earlier thought that Fashola’s choice was an
error of calculation.”
Jeje, who was a former Commissioner Designate in Lagos State
for Chieftaincy Affairs and Boundary Matters observed that
with the way Fashola was performing, the dream of Mega City
for the state would be a forgone conclusion in due course
while stressing the need for all hands to be on deck to assist
the governor reminding that the duty of making good governance
a reality was a collective task of all the well meaning individuals
in the society.
According to him, his group has since realized that fact before
embarking on empowerment and poverty alleviation programmes
that could raise the living standard of the people of Lagos
with a view to complementing the efforts of the state government
in its efforts at making life worthy of living for all and
sundry.
“Our periodic free health programme, environmental exercise,
tree planting, scholarship scheme, as well as enlightenment
campaigns against HIV/AIDS are all tailored to conform with
global norms of achieving a healthy and crisis free society.”
TNG Patron stated while urging other corporate bodies, NGOs,
well meaning individuals, religious institutions and parastatals
to come up with various schemes that could eradicate poverty
and guarantee mass employment for the teeming youth of this
country.
By so doing, Jeje reasoned, the rate of crime would reduce
while life would become meaningful to a greater percentage
of the citizenry.
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